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Today's lead stories:
AIDS special: Behind the Bush Administration Domestic policy
AIDS Special: Rwanda
100 to be released from Guantanamo Bay?
EPA not Protecting Children?
FSRN-Corpwatch Exclusive: Benetton land-grabs in Argentina
FSRN Headlines by Nell Abram
Steel Tariffs – John Hamilton
The White House is preparing to announce a complete repeal
on tariffs charged to imported steel. John Hamilton has the
story.
Colorado Redistricting – Patrick Nayliss
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a gerrymandering case
that may have national implications. Patrick Nayliss reports
form Denver.
UC Strikes – Vanessa Tait
Graduate student employees at the University of California’s
9 campuses statewide are set to strike this week over what
they say are management’s unfair bargaining practices.
From Berkeley, Vanessa Tait .
World AIDS Day Rally – Joann Hong
At a World AIDS Day rally today, religious leaders urged the
U.S. government to increase support for AIDS relief. Joann
Hong is in D.C.
Venezuela Recall Petition – Gregory Wilpert
After failing to oust President Hugo Chavez through a coup
and employer- supported general strikes, Venezuela's opposition
is now trying via a recall referendum. The petition drive
for qualifying the ballot issue ends today amidst contradictory
charges of fraud, failure, and success. Greg Wilpert reports
from Caracas.
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AIDS special: Behind the Bush Administration Domestic
policy
Today is World AIDS day and internationally people are organizing
demonstrations to call on the world’s leaders and pharmaceutical
companies to do more to prevent the spread of AIDS. We at
FSRN begin special coverage focusing on the AIDS pandemic
– first we look at the Bush Administration’s domestic
HIV/AIDS policy. Last week over 1000 people, marched on the
White House with banners reading “Voters Want AIDS Action,
Not Weapons of Mass Deception”. Paul Seldman from the
National Association of People with AIDS tells Deepa Fernandes
that the Bush Administration has been divesting in effective
strategies for HIV prevention while clamping down on scientific
research into the disease.
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AIDS Special: Rwanda
Most of the tens of millions of Africans living with HIV/AIDS
have no access to potentially life-saving anti-retroviral
treatment. In Rwanda though, calls are increasingly being
made to provide one section of the community with medicine
as a priority – female survivors of the 1994 Rwandan
genocide in which a million mainly Tutsis and moderate Hutus
were killed by army and militia loyal to the then Hutu extremist
government. Rupert Cook reports.
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100 to be released from Guantanamo Bay?
The U.S. Military says it killed 54 Iraqi resistance fighters
on Sunday after two U.S. convoys were attacked in the Iraqi
city of Samsarra, north of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses say at least
8 of the 54 killed were civilians. The BBC is reporting that
buildings in Samsarra are full of bullet holes, the streets
are full of burned out cars, and civilians are full of anger
calling the U.S.'s response to the attacks as indiscriminate
and unnecessary. A U.S. Military spokesperson said the military
is sending a clear message that anyone who attacks U.S. convoys
will pay the price. Over a dozen foreigners were killed in
Iraq over the weekend which includes 7 Spanish officers, 2
Japanese diplomats, 2 South Korean workers and a Columbian
contractor. The month of November was the bloodiest for coalition
forces since the invasion as 111 soldiers were killed, 79
of which were from the United States. Meanwhile, Time Magazine
is reporting that the U.S. is planning to release over 100
detainees out of Guantanamo Bay, where several hundred detainees
have been held without legal representation for two years.
Mitch Jeserich brings us this story from Washington D.C.
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EPA not Protecting Children?
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering an important
rule change that would allow the nuclear industry to store
low-level radioactive material in ordinary landfills and hazardous
waste sites. The EPA has invited public comments on this proposal
through March 17, 2004. Meanwhile, a dozen environmental,
religious, health and farm worker organizations are suing
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for what they say
is the EPA¹s failure to protect children from substantial
health threats posed by 5 high-risk pesticides. New York,
New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut, have filed a similar
suit. Kellia Ramares filed this report.
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FSRN-Corpwatch Exclusive: Benetton land-grabs in
Argentina
To the Mapuche Indigenous peoples in Southern Argentina,
the Italian Clothing Manufacturer Benetton is the newest conquistador
in the 10,000 year old land struggle in Patagonia. Benetton,
in cooperation with the state of Argentina, is accused of
squeezing out the Mapuche from their native lands for commercial
interests. Benetton is the largest landholder in Argentina,
owning 2.2 million acres in the resource rich region of Patagonia.
With 9% of Patagonia's most cultivatable land, their holdings
amount to 40 times the size of the capital city of Buenos
Aires, the second largest city in Latin America. In collaboration
with Corpwatch, Pauline Bartolone travelled to Patagonia has
this story about the most recent cases of land grabbing by
Benetton.
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